The Ministry of Aviation was a department of the United Kingdom government established in 1959. Its responsibilities included the regulation of civil aviation and the supply of military aircraft, which it took on from the

Ministry of Supply The Ministry of Supply (MoS) was a department of the UK government formed in 1939 to co-ordinate the supply of equipment to all three British armed forces, headed by the Minister of Supply. A separate ministry, however, was responsible for aircr ...

. In 1967, the Ministry of Aviation merged into the Ministry of Technology which took on the supply of military aircraft, while regulatory responsibilities were switched to the

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Ministers of Aviation

* 14 October 1959: Duncan SandysDavid Butler and Gareth Butler, ''Twentieth Century British Political Facts 1900-2000'', Macmillan 2000, p. 27.Butler and Butler, p. 58. * 27 July 1960: Peter Thorneycroft * 16 July 1962: Julian Amery * 18 October 1964:

Roy Jenkins Roy Harris Jenkins, Baron Jenkins of Hillhead, (11 November 1920 – 5 January 2003) was a British politician who served as President of the European Commission from 1977 to 1981. At various times a Member of Parliament (MP) for the Lab ...

Butler and Butler, p. 30. * 23 December 1965: Frederick Mulley * 7 January 1967 – 15 February 1967: John Stonehouse

Parliamentary Secretaries

* 22 October 1959: Geoffrey Rippon * 9 October 1961: Christopher Woodhouse * 16 July 1962: Basil de Ferranti * 3 December 1962: Neil Marten * 20 October 1964: John Stonehouse * 6 April 1966 – 7 January 1967: Julian Snow

Permanent Secretaries

* 1959: Sir William StrathButler and Butler, p. 301. * 1960:

Henry Hardman Sir Henry Hardman, KCB (15 December 1905 – 17 January 2001) was an English civil servant and, briefly, an academic economist. Early life Hardman was born in December 1905, the son of Harry Hardman of Old Trafford, Manchester, and Bertha Cook ...

(knighted in 1962)'' Flight International'', no. 2756, vol. 81, 4 January 1962
p. 2
* 1963: Sir Richard Way * 1966: Sir Richard Clarke * 1966–7: Sir Ronald Melville

References

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